The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 59
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KAZUHIKO YAMAMOTO, SHUNJI MORI, TERUO TSUCHIYA,
SEIICHI SAITO, and KEIICHI ANAHARA
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Appeal No. 1999-2027
Application No. 08/452,500
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HEARD: July 12, 2001
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Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING, and GROSS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claim 1, which is the only claim pending in this
application.
Appellants' invention relates to a pattern recognition
system in which outermost points of a character are extracted
by extending rays from a common starting point on the contour
of the character in a predetermined set of angular directions
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